The huge capacity to purchase submission that goes with any large sum of money, well, this we have. This is a power of which we should all be aware.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

The individual serves the planning system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it far more by consuming its products.

She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that she does not take seriously the intellectual decline. Having given up the Empire and the mass production of industrial goods, Britain's future lay in its scientific and artistic pre-eminence. Mrs Thatcher will be long remembered for the damage she has done.

Only foolish people are completely secure.

When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover.

No hungry man who is also sober can be persuaded to use his last dollar for anything but food.